DNA Newletter, 30 September 2011
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Add Your Flag - Join the Hawkins Worldwide DNA Project! Project site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/. Data: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/tree_g-1.html Administrator: [email protected] {phil_hawkins"at"sbc.... }. Newsletter 30 September 2011 Articles Page “Free” Ancestry database 1 Are you the last male in your Hawkins line? Test now! Genealogy Gems 1 + 2 Communicating with me 3 Hawkins Family Group 01 3 Material from Bits and Pieces of the Hawkins Family Puzzle by Millie Farmer Hawkins Family Group 02 4 is presented in this issue. It is reprinted, with permission, from the former Hawkins Family Group 04 5 publication, Hawkins Heritage, edited by Olyve Hallmark Abbott, who Hawkins Family Group 05 6 Hawkins Family Group 07 6 published it with permission from Mrs. Farmer. This information is Hawkins Family Group 10 9 printed as submitted by the Hawkins Heritage editor. Hawkins Family Group 14 11 Bits & Pieces 15 I am copying seven pages of Bits and Pieces... in this issue from the 18th & 19th editions of the Hawkins Heritage, April and August 1993. I encourage you to submit a rejoinder to any error in fact that you see in these reproduced pages. --------------------***------------------- RootsWeb Review, 14 September 2011, Vol. 14, No. 9: Finally, there is one more freebie, which may surprise you. Many subscription sites, such as Ancestry.com, offer free databases, which are located by entering the keyword free into the card catalog. Among the freebies you'll find at Ancestry.com, are a variety of census records, New York Passenger Lists, 1820–1957 and the U.S. Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791–1992 (indexed by the World Archives Project). --------------------***-------------------- I need to personally thank Kay Spears (see next article) for her help with WORD 2010. Each month I work through her article, following her steps, and finding all the things that I never knew could be done. Her explanations, along with the “Menu” add-in that I mentioned in the third paragraph under the Happy 235th, in the July edition, have really helped. --------------------***-------------------- Genealogy Gems: News from the Fort Wayne Library, No. 91, September 30, 2011 Exploring the Ribbon: Insert Tab by Kay Spears The Insert tab contains a variety of powerful tools that help you insert and modify items in your Word documents. If you need to search the help files, Microsoft has called some of these ready-made tools “Building Blocks.” Pages: The first Building Block tool is the Cover Page. Not all documents need a cover page; however, if you want one, Microsoft offers more than twenty from which to choose. Just click on the drop down arrow beside the words Cover Page and select one. Also in this group are Blank Page and Page Break. (To insert a blank page using the keyboard press: Ctrl+Enter.) Tables: This group provides an interesting feature. Click on the Table arrow and you’ll see a grid of little squares. If you run the cursor over these squares, you will see a preview of the resulting table in your document. Click to insert the table you see. Also available are the old Insert Table dialog box, Draw Table, insert Excel Spreadsheet and Quick Tables. The Quick Tables are ready-made templates that you can edit after inserting. Illustrations: This is the fun group. Spend some time experimenting with the available tools: Picture, Clip Art, Shapes, SmartArt, Chart, and Screenshot. You’ll get some amazing effects. Once you insert something – 1 for instance, a shape – your ribbon will change and offer you more tools for adding effects to the inserted illustration. The only thing you can no longer do is insert an image into “WordArt” text – unless you change the formatting to 2003, but then you will not be able to use the 2010 effects on that particular object. Links: Choices here are Hyperlink, Bookmark and Cross-reference. Hyperlink inserts web addresses into your document. Click on it and a dialog box will allow you to choose the address. The Bookmark tool provides a dialog box for naming any bookmarks you wish to insert and is probably most valuable if you are working with a lengthy document, but you could also use the basic Find tool to locate specific text. Cross- References help point readers to captions, headings, footnotes, endnotes, statistics, etc., and are automatically updated as you modify content. They only work within a current document; you cannot point to an object in another document. Header & Footer: In this group, clicking on the Header and Footer drop down arrows will offer several templates from which you can choose. The Page Number insert also presents numerous options. After you select one, an editing tool will appear in the ribbon. To get out of the editing tool, click twice. To get back into the editing tool for Header, Footer or Page Number, click twice in the header or footer area. This editing tool can be used to format page numbers. Text: This group includes Text Box, Quick Parts, WordArt, Drop Cap, Signature Line, Date & Time, and Object. Quick Parts inserts objects/things that are used repeatedly, such as the name of a company or an address, into the document. Drop Cap enlarges the beginning letter of a paragraph. Symbols: In this group, Equation inserts mathematical symbols into your document and adds an editing tool to the ribbon. Symbol will insert objects like the copyright or trademark symbol into your text. If you ever need to know what any of these tools does, just hold your cursor over it and a pop-up box will appear with a definition. Next: The Microsoft Word Ribbon: Page Layout Tab *** Genealogy Gems: News from the Fort Wayne Library, No. 90, August 31, 2011 Quick-Tip of the Month for Preservation--“Final” Resting Place for Your Documents & Heirlooms by John D. Beatty We all know the importance of keeping our family documents in acid-free file folders and boxes and our photographs in archival-quality plastic or Mylar sleeves. We have also discussed in this column the importance of labeling our photographs and cataloging and identifying our family heirlooms, such as that vase you inherited from your great-grandmother, and then maintaining an inventory of those items. We have also talked about keeping our genealogical records in good order and even publishing our family history in some form and leaving it in a genealogical library. But what happens to all of these precious items when you die? Have you made provision for your heirlooms in your will? Some people will have younger generations interested in genealogy who they know will gladly accept heirlooms and photo albums and agree to preserve them. If so, you should first be thankful, and then formalize in writing a bequest of these items to that heir in your will. Sadly, many have no such heirs and face the prospect of having their treasured heirlooms sold at an estate sale or even thrown into a dumpster. Don't let that happen to you. Consider the alternatives while you still can. If you have no interested heirs, see if there is a library or historical society in the area where your family lived - or even a state library or historical society - that would accept your family photos, Bibles, and letters. Make arrangements to donate them while you can, or make an appropriate provision in your will for your heirlooms to go there. Digitize your family photos and family Bible pages and create a family memory book - even if it is not a full-scale genealogy - and consider donating it to a library. The peace of mind is well worth 2 it. [Ft. Wayne Editor’s note: If you want to share digitized data with others, including Bible records, diaries, and personal papers, you can simply send a disk copy to The Genealogy Center stating we have your permission to share the data online.] --------------------***------------------- Repeating: It would be a big assist to me if, when communicating with me, you would use your full name. If your a participant - also your kit #, and everyone - which family group or line is your interest. I am in contact with a pretty large number of people, lot’s of John’s, James’, etc, and when I receive email with a John or James or Harry signature, or when you go by your middle name, I have to go to Properties, get your email, and then do a search for who you are. It becomes quite time consuming. You might consider setting up a block signature to use with me (If you are using Internet Explorer browser go to Tools, then options, then Signature, then New, provide a name (maybe dna), choose Text, type (for example) Phillip A. Hawkins, #123459, “Phil”, Hawkins Fam Grp #04, or maybe Susan Hawkins Smith, re Phillip A. Hawkins #123459, Fam Grp 04. Add the “signature” at the end of an email by going to “Insert” and selecting “Signature” and “dna.” --------------------***------------------- Repeating: It takes more than one individual to provide a newsletter. If you want to see this newsletter continue, then you are going to have to sometimes be a “giver,” not solely a taker. --------------------***-------------------- I encourage you to look through the pages in our newsletter that are submitted by our Family Group Administrators. They often provide material that is not limited to there groups. If you would be interested in acting as the assistant Administrator for your group, please contact me. --------------------***-------------------- --------------------***---***----------------- Input from our Hawkins Family Groups. The family pages are found at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/tree_g-1.html. --------------------***-------------------- Hawkins Family Group-01 (Group Administrator is Marsha Moses, [email protected].) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/tree_g-1.html#Group-01 Early Virginia Hawkins families and the Baptist religion.